The best Hoi An bars and brew pubs for sipping cocktails and craft beers include everything from breezy wine bars White Marble and Market Bar, which have Hoi An’s best wine lists, to riverside bars, such as Mango Rooms and Mango Mango, which offer craft beers and brilliant vantage points from which to watch the …
Our best curry recipes from Southeast Asia include a rich Cambodian Saraman curry and its Thai cousin beef Massaman curry to a more gently-spiced steamed Cambodian fish curry called amok trei and the decadent pork belly curry, Gaeng hang lay moo from Northern Thailand, and Gaeng gari gai, a chicken curry recipe from Southern Thailand. …
Our one day in Phuket Old Town itinerary provides a plan for a perfect day in the capital of the Southern Thai island, kicking off with a quintessential Old Town breakfast – or two – and taking you through snacks and lunch, punctuated by market walks and museum visits, and ending with a must-do dinner. …
The best Luang Prabang boutique hotels to book to absorb the history, culture and beauty of this well preserved UNESCO World Heritage listed old town include handsome French colonial-era residences of late kings, a former royal summer house, and the old French Governor’s residence of the 1900s. Lovely Luang Prabang received its UNESCO World Heritage …
The best Hoi An cafes and tea houses provide much-needed retreats from the heat in the sultry Central Vietnam town of Hoi An, as much as they do opportunities for sipping coffee in its many forms, from traditional to third wave, and experiencing elegant tea services in tranquil surrounds. The best Hoi An cafes and …
Why you need to go to Vietnam in 2019 beginning with the fact that I’m hosting a delicious Vietnam Cuisine and Culture Tour in July-August and there are brilliant flights deals with Vietnam Airlines right now. Then there are the new boutique hotels and restaurants, some of Asia's best street food, and fantastic shopping. Vietnam …
Our one day in Hoi An itinerary provides a plan for the perfect day in Hoi An, beginning with breakfast – in Hoi An your day has to start with banh mi – and ending with dinner, which we recommend you linger over at a riverside colonial-style villa. You could easily spend a week in charming …
The best Ho Chi Minh City luxury hotels include everything from big 5-star brands, such as the Sofitel, InterContinental and Park Hyatt, which has spacious colonial style suites, hotels with history, such as the Continental, and The Reverie Saigon, perhaps the city's most sumptuous lodgings. You're spoilt for choice when it comes to the best …
Cambodian Chef Tim Pheak has probably travelled more than most Cambodian chefs his age. Yet he says he is finally living the dream as an executive chef in Cambodia's Siem Reap, where he's cooking elegant renditions on traditional Cambodian dishes with organic local produce. Cambodian chef Tim Pheak – Cambodians put family names first, so you'd …
Hanoi street food specialties you have to try range from Vietnamese street food staples such as Hanoi's famous noodle soup, pho bo Hanoi (phở bò Hà Nội), to distinctive local dishes such as the delectable bánh cuốn. This is our guide to the best street food to sample in Hanoi. Once you start strolling the …
Our tips to avoid getting sick when travelling include everything from boosting your immunity before you leave home with fermented foods to washing your hands compulsively when you’re away and taking preventative anti-diarrhoea medication to try to avoid 'travellers’ tummy'. There are few things worse than being sick when you’re on that much-needed holiday, whether …
Cambodian chef Pola Siv helms the kitchen of Mie Café, one of Siem Reap’s best restaurants, where the 35 year-old chef creates an elegant and inventive contemporary Cambodian cuisine rooted in local produce and European cooking techniques. Cambodian chef Pola Siv has a great story. Like the northern Cambodia city of Siem Reap’s other talented young …